In association with the Society for Caribbean Studies

Friday 6 March, 2015

Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation
University of Hull
Oriel Chambers
27 High Street
Hull HU1 1NE

Programme

12.30-13:30 Arrival and lunch

13:30-14:20 Natalie Zacek (Manchester), ‘Holding the Whip-Hand: Gender, Slavery, and the Pornography of Pain in Jamaica and New Orleans’

14:20-15:10 Jenny Wilson (Leeds), ‘The Return of Liberated Africans from Cuba and Brazil to Africa, 1830-1870’

15:10-15:40 tea and coffee break

15:40-16:30 Wendy Asquith (Liverpool), ‘Estime’s Extravaganza: Haiti’s “Little World Fair” of 1949-50’

16:30-17:20 Jim Walvin (York), ‘Slavery in Small Things’

For details about WISE, including directions and contact details, see…

Registration is free, but compulsory.… read on...

XI TALLER INTERNACIONAL, PROBLEMAS TEORICOS Y PRACTICOS DE LA HISTORIA REGIONAL Y LOCAL.
A 500 AÑOS DE LAS VILLAS DE CUBA
LA HABANA, CUBA, 1 AL 3 DE ABRIL DE 2015.

más detalles…

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SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL
LA REVOLUCIÓN CUBANA: GÉNESIS Y DESARROLLO HISTÓRICO

13, 14 y 15 de octubre de 2015, en el Palacio de Convenciones, La Habana, Cuba.… read on...

The Jamaican poet Kei Miller, a former winner of the Bridget Jones Award for Caribbean Studies, has won the prestigious Forward prize for the best poetry collection of 2014 for his “standout” book based on dialogue between a mapmaker striving to impose order on an unfamiliar land and a “Rasta-man” who queries his project.… read on...

BRIDGET JONES TRAVEL AWARD 2015

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Arts researchers or practitioners living and working in the Caribbean are eligible to apply for the Bridget Jones Travel Award, the deadline for which is the 16th January 2015. The winner of the award will present their work at the 39th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies, The Drum Intercultural Arts Centre, Birmingham, 1-3 July 2015.… read on...

Thursday October 9, 2014

IAS Seminar: Jamaican Queer Writing – Professor Thomas Glave

6pm

FREE

Verdon Smith Room, Royal Fort House, University of Bristol

In conjunction with the Bristol Poetry Institute’s annual reading by Professor Mervyn Morris (Poet Laureate of Jamaica), Professor Glave will visit the University of Bristol to read from his work.… read on...